Cooking with seasonal products and the contents of your pantry
I haven’t made chicken wings in a few years, but I couldn’t tell you why. But one lazy afternoon I was looking for something easy to make for dinner and somehow we decided on chicken wings. And then I made them twice in one week.…
This is without a doubt the best way to eat kale. And we eat a lot of kale around here (if you hadn’t noticed how many recipes on this blog include kale ha!). And in less than half an hour, you can be snacking on…
Summer = fresh produce, grill, and simple yet bold flavors. The salad combines all of those things together in one delicious, satisfying salad. I used fresh, sweet corn on the cob as the base for the salad and paired it with summer squash, grape tomatoes,…
My good friend Corey has this amazing chicken and rice dish that she makes whenever anyone isn’t feeling well – like matzo ball soup for Jews (no comment on the amount of matzo meal currently in my pantry). She had given me some of the…
If you are like me, you may pick up random bags of flour without a clear idea of what to do with it. They may end up living in your pantry for a while, temporarily forgotten. Such as garbanzo bean flour. It turns out, I…
We are doing a lot of baking these days. And it is a great and delicious way to help kids understand math (such as proportions, fractions, addition, subtraction, etc) and science (what happens when things bake, when certain ingredients meet, etc). A couple of days…
Lentils are a great go-to meal. They hang out in the pantry until you are ready to use them with no presoaking required. And they are full of protein and lots of other good-for-you-things. And they come in a variety of colors. Feel free to…
Welcome to the start of another week – how many of you are feeling the effects of daylight savings (especially with kids!). I don’t know about you, but I’m still trying to adjust to that single hour difference. This means that a complicated dinner is…
It’s almost spring. The buds on trees are finally started bloom, including my lemon tree which is covered in buds and baby lemons! I love lemons and use them in so many recipes. What do you think, should I add a “lemon” category to the…
Ginger and sesame combine in a one-pan meal that can be on the table in about 20 minutes. And it only uses 10 ingredients (12 if you count salt and oil). The sauce and aromatics are what is key here. The base of the flavor…